A red-eye, please, I said to the young woman. I waited to see whether she would recognize the drink or whether I would have to explain that it was a cup of coffee with a shot of espresso. … She made my drink, then his, but kept her eyes on him even as she handed me my red-eye.

I am fain to dine and sup with water and bran.

...a painfully obvious joke that, in modern performance, is punctuated by a ba-dum ching! drum roll and cymbal crash to coincide with the collective groan of the audience.

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